Products liability doctrine holds a manufacturer, or other party involved in selling a product, strictly liable when an article, placed into the market with knowledge that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes a personal injury. Consumers who are injured because of a fault with a product that the consumers had no ability to protect themselves against may recover against the manufacturer under a theory of products liability.
Bellerose is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 1,173 at the 2000 census. The Village of Bellerose is in the Town of Hempstead near the western county line.